Cycling: Münster wants to bring the Tour de France to Germany. This news caused a stir at the end of July. [ Link ] Now they want to make it official and have invited the Tour director himself to the Sparkassen Münsterland Giro.
On October 3rd, Prudhomme will be present in Germany, just a few weeks after Münster's mayor, Markus Lewe, visited the Tour de France start in York. "It speaks volumes for our race and the Münsterland region that we have built such a strong reputation within a decade ," said Lewe. "And of course, it's also a certain honor that our race is now known even to the top brass of the world's most important cycling race."
The Sparkassen Münsterland Giro could thus become "an application for the entire region ," Lewe continued. "Now, completely independent of whether and when a project like the Tour de France becomes a reality in Münsterland – with patient and meticulous work, we have laid the foundation for discussions that we never would have thought possible at the launch of the Sparkassen Münsterland Giro in 2006; indeed, quite honestly, that we never would have dreamed of."
Should Münster's bid to host the Tour de France become a reality, the city would be the next German city to receive this honor, following Cologne in 1965 and Berlin in 1987. However, there is still a long way to go and the outcome is completely open, "but sometimes you have to have visions – perhaps tackle ideas that seem crazy at first glance. You can only grow by taking on challenges; that has been our motto at the Sparkassen Münsterland Giro from the very beginning ," Lewe concluded.